Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them speelt zich af in het Harry Potter universum en zien we diverse nieuwe karakters die een spannend avontuur gaan beleven. De Engelse acteur Eddie Redmayne had een interview met de website Collider over deze film en het werken met de fictieve beesten. Dus verplicht leesvoer voor de fans. Deze film is overigens vanaf 17 november in de Nederlandse bioscopen te zien.

How're you guys shooting the scenes with the beasts? Do you have anyone that's kind of performing opposite you, or is most of it just you and David coming up with it...

REDMAYNE: Well, I've worked with Alex Reynolds, who I've worked with on Theory of Everything and The Danish Girl who is a dancer and movement coach I suppose. And we just spent a couple of months sort of investigating that. 'Cause what was lovely is David didn't come in and go this how it's-he was like, "whatever," you know, let's make it a collaboration if you need actors to play opposite that we then, sort of, make disappear. Or puppeteers and so with each of the creatures, what was important for me was that Newt has a different relationship with them, but also that they have a relationship with each other. They all kind of live down in this case and I think he's in some way, sort of, you know, parenting their relationship with each other. And so, we sort of played around with different ideas and so, the answer is that it varies from character to character. So, for example, Pickett, who's one of my favorite characters, who's a little stick man and he kind of lives in here (points to pocket). He has attachment issues, so, he always has to sort of be in my pocket. And when he comes up on to the shoulder, I started by having a puppeteer come with literally a finger puppet, feeling what that was like. And then they had a long, sort of, pole with Pickett, and made out of wire on the end and then, eventually, when we actually film he's not there and but by now, you have a sense of him and you can play with him. And then, sometimes, like, tonight we're doing a second unit thing with just a baboon in Central Park Zoo but the baboon's not going to be there. I find it was much easier to work with totally nothing and to sort of improvise with yourself (laughs). I'm saying this with great confidence. It could be a catastrophe. (laughs)